OliveMate

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by OliveMate 3y ago
As someone who's only used SVGs for illustrations, I'm constantly amazed at how much more the format allows for. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39293093
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by OliveMate 3y ago
>And it's far less painful than going cold turkey. As stupid as it sounds I forgot that it was an option. There's something clean about saying "I won't have any more of X after this date" and sticking to it. Alth
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by OliveMate 3y ago
I've been on the decaf wagon for a good few years now, I can't say it helped me out with anxiety or productivity but I can echo the sentiment that I can sleep within minutes. Also not relying on caffeine to keep me going pretty mu
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by OliveMate 3y ago
Bought a Quest 2 in 2022, I got a lot of use out of it initially (mostly played Pavlov Shack, SUPERHOT VR, and community-made ports of classic FPS games), then fell off using it after ~8 months. When I built my new PC I had a blast with it
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by OliveMate 3y ago
I remember a decade ago when people were up in arms about Wolfenstein TNO and Titanfall being over 40GB. Feels like a quaint thing to complain about nowadays.
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by OliveMate 3y ago
One day I'd like to get into wood carving, making little decorative figures and the like, but the lack of space + storage is currently a major roadblock for me. There's a little part of my mind pining (heh) over getting a hobby th
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by OliveMate 3y ago
The old Wadsworth Constant[1] is being worn thin with each passing year. Half the time it feels like you should skip all the way to the last 30% of whatever to get what you're looking for. A side note about YouTube in particular, I fin
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by OliveMate 3y ago
As someone who's more of a social recluse in my day to day life, I'd never have considered what you've just said. Thank you for the eye-opener. I still share what I've read with friends and coworkers and it's lovely
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by OliveMate 3y ago
I'm put off by the focus of the article. As already mentioned it feels like it's peddling a book club and merch first and making strenuous connections to try and justify it. --- I don't really like putting on my cynical hat,
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by OliveMate 3y ago
Can't properly comment on it as I'm watching on a phone, but my 2 cents: Last week there was an Ask HN thread about live-rendered video games graphics still looking worse than 20 year old Hollywood CGI. A lot of the comments were
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by OliveMate 3y ago
Seeing as we don't have any wolves around, I'm all for it.
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by OliveMate 3y ago
... Thankfully, I don't live in California.
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by OliveMate 3y ago
The sad thing is that our political class and media used to actively ridicule China's Great Firewall, but now when the internet nasty of the month pops up they all froth at the mouth over controlling what people can see.
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by OliveMate 3y ago
I feel the issue is with human filters. Creating a seamless and believable image edit requires time and effort, regardless of how experienced the editor is. You were limited by what images you could source, how they'd fit together (doe
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by OliveMate 3y ago
I can't thank you enough for sharing that site, bloody tired of all the dodgy TTS YouTube pronunciation vids out there.
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by OliveMate 3y ago
From my experience in the UK most telecoms have the same system, although I've only ever used it by accident and each time it left the person on the other end confused. At one point BT hired Tom Baker to use his voice on their TTS syst
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by OliveMate 3y ago
Although Stoicism isn't for me I'd recommend Meditations any day, although I find the earlier translations of it to be more poignant and lasting than modern ones. I find it fascinating how as Emperor, Marcus Aurelius had most of h
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by OliveMate 3y ago
Not in response to the article but the general vibes in the comments. Writing a published book and having it out there is a thought that really resonates me. I wonder what I'd write if I had more time to myself, a clear mind, and &#x2F
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by OliveMate 3y ago
>The voters of Britain made their choice and now they must deal with the consequences as best they can. I get why I've seen this sort of comment for the last 7 years but I dislike the idea that Brexit was a unaminous decision when w
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by OliveMate 3y ago
>The font isn't optimal to my eyes. I wouldn't be surprised if the default font looks as bleh as it does on Mac as it does everything else. If I stick with the system default font (which I'm now doubting) I could try and m
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by OliveMate 3y ago
That's trade mark laws for you. If you don't try and protect your trade mark at every opportunity it can be stripped from you and every Tom, Dick, and Harry can put out whatever they want with your name/term. I get it, but st
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by OliveMate 3y ago
And it wouldn't be a HN post without an archived link – https://archive.is/mYfaY
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Ask HN: How can I make my blog more readable?
1 points by OliveMate 3y ago|5 comments
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by OliveMate 3y ago
Daft question: would it be possible to attach an accelerometer (edit: or gyroscope) to the monitor and connect it to a script to update the display angle on the fly?
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by OliveMate 3y ago
God, I hate how every time I see a new Linux Distro I want to ditch what I have and try it out. At some point I'm going to become like the rest of you and buy a few hundred extra ThinkPads to satiate my curiosity.
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by OliveMate 3y ago
I went into this expecting another 'hurr UK surveillance hell CCTV cameras' hot take but what I got was much better. I wish I could write something as good as this. As someone who doesn't live close to London, it perfectly ca
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by OliveMate 3y ago
A lot of people overseas have the idea that British newspapers are prestigious titans of journalism due to how old and widespread they are, and I could scream from the heavens about how wrong that is. The tabloids are a dire stain on our so
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by OliveMate 3y ago
I'm currently away from my PC so I can't check myself, does it embed a single noise texture and use it multiple times, or does it generate a texture for each use of noise? As someone who can't justify an Adobe license and can
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by OliveMate 3y ago
Despite this being piloted in Germany, there's still a way to access and enable this setting (although it only currently works in private windows). Thanks to Michael Veale[1] for bringing this to my attention: > Go to the URL about:
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Block Cookie Banners on Firefox(support.mozilla.org)
3 points by OliveMate 3y ago|2 comments

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